Alberto Alberti (producer)

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Alberto Alberti (* 1931 / 1932 ; † 4. September 2006 ) was an Italian record producer , impresario and manager.

After a visit to London in 1953, Alberti opened an import shop for jazz LPs in Bologna (disclub) through the contacts he made there, which was the first of its kind in Italy and which was also a jazz club. In 1958 he founded the international Bologna Jazz Festival with Cicci Foresti , at which many international jazz greats performed, for example Kid Ory for the first time . He was the contact person and organizer of the appearances of many American jazz greats on trips to Europe (such as Miles Davis , Ella Fitzgerald , Chet Baker , Dexter Gordon ). He worked as a producer in the 1960s a. a. with Steve Lacy ( Disposability ). From 1973 he was artistic director of the Umbria Jazz festival ; In the mid-1970s he became the producer of the Italian label Red Records , which he founded with Sergio Veschi to publish live recordings of the saxophonist Sam Rivers . On Red he produced a. a. in the second half of the 1970s recordings by Donald Garrett's Sea Ensemble , the Modern Art Trio by Bruno Tommaso and Franco D'Andrea as well as Dennis Irwin / James Williams ( Focus , 1979), David Murray / Butch Morris ( Last of the Hipman) , Billy Higgins ( Soweto ) and Kai Winding . In the 1980s, productions by the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble ( Impressions ), Bob Dorough ( Sing and Swing ) and Joe Henderson ( An Evening With ... , 1987) followed. For a commissioned production of the La Spezia Jazz Festival , Alberti co-founded the all-star formation The Jazz Tribe , in which Bobby Watson , Ray Mantilla , Jack Walrath , Walter Bishop Jr., Joe Chambers and Charles Fambrough played. Alberti died in 2006 at the age of 74.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the International Jazz Festival Bologna ( Memento of December 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ( Italian )
  2. ↑ Alberto Alberti at Discogs (English)
  3. ^ Red Records
  4. ↑ Gaylord Music Library ( Memento of November 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Alberti, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian music producer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Italy
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 2006
Place of death Italy